Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges

Y Sun, L Shang, QH Zhu, L Fan, L Guo - Trends in Plant Science, 2022 - cell.com
Publication of the complete genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana, the first plant
reference genome, in December 2000 heralded the beginning of the plant genome era …

Towards population-scale long-read sequencing

W De Coster, MH Weissensteiner… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing technologies have now reached a level of accuracy and yield that
allows their application to variant detection at a scale of tens to thousands of samples …

Super-pangenome analyses highlight genomic diversity and structural variation across wild and cultivated tomato species

N Li, Q He, J Wang, B Wang, J Zhao, S Huang… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Effective utilization of wild relatives is key to overcoming challenges in genetic improvement
of cultivated tomato, which has a narrow genetic basis; however, current efforts to decipher …

Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing

RA Marks, S Hotaling, PB Frandsen, R VanBuren - Nature plants, 2021 - nature.com
The field of plant genome sequencing has grown rapidly in the past 20 years, leading to
increases in the quantity and quality of publicly available genomic resources. The growing …

Ensembl Genomes 2022: an expanding genome resource for non-vertebrates

AD Yates, J Allen, RM Amode, AG Azov… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Ensembl Genomes (https://www. ensemblgenomes. org) provides access to non-
vertebrate genomes and analysis complementing vertebrate resources developed by the …

The barley pan-genome reveals the hidden legacy of mutation breeding

M Jayakodi, S Padmarasu, G Haberer, VS Bonthala… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic diversity is key to crop improvement. Owing to pervasive genomic structural
variation, a single reference genome assembly cannot capture the full complement of …

Graph-based pan-genome reveals structural and sequence variations related to agronomic traits and domestication in cucumber

H Li, S Wang, S Chai, Z Yang, Q Zhang, H Xin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Structural variants (SVs) represent a major source of genetic diversity and are related to
numerous agronomic traits and evolutionary events; however, their comprehensive …

Genome-edited crops for improved food security of smallholder farmers

KV Pixley, JB Falck-Zepeda, RL Paarlberg… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Widespread enthusiasm about potential contributions of genome-edited crops to address
climate change, food security, nutrition and health, environmental sustainability and …

Green plant genomes: What we know in an era of rapidly expanding opportunities

WJ Kress, DE Soltis, PJ Kersey… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Green plants play a fundamental role in ecosystems, human health, and agriculture. As de
novo genomes are being generated for all known eukaryotic species as advocated by the …

Designing future crops: challenges and strategies for sustainable agriculture

Z Tian, JW Wang, J Li, B Han - The Plant Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Crop production is facing unprecedented challenges. Despite the fact that the food supply
has significantly increased over the past half‐century,~ 8.9 and 14.3% people are still …